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Bookish: DOUBLE-GLOVED & divers (5#) -

# Although I've watched Special Agent Dana Scully MD snapping on the latex, I've never been particularly interested in watching random autopsies. How about you? If you don't mind, Deborah Sharp from Fort Lauderdale posts a brief blog entry about her recent attendance at SleuthFest '08.

# Ghost Neighborhoods: Robert Frank writes... "I’m always amazed at how the richest neighborhoods are also among the most empty. If you walk down any side street along South Ocean Drive in Palm Beach, Fla., even at high season, the only people you see are landscapers and contractors." [Notable]

# SPOOKSPEAK: Ben Macintyre writes about spook jargon which has crossed over and is entering the general public discourse. A "small peek into the arcane world of... the strange, fertile and semi-secret language of spying... The real language of espionage and the invented language of literary spying are now so entwined that they cannot be untangled." Graham Greene, John le Carre, et al.

# The Observer's Peter Guttridge writes a feature piece about Tom Rob Smith who has written a novel about a serial killer in Russia, Child 44, which has garnered much acclaim. Ridley Scott of Blade Runner fame is "passionate" to make it into a movie.

# A world map graphic
that shows which social networks
online are popular in which countries.

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